January 22, 2020

Amotekun

Àmọ̀tẹ́kùn As a Game Changer For 2023

January 22, 2020 7:38 am

Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide during the Goodluck Jonathan administration has aired his views about the controversial, Pro-South-South security outfit ‘Amotekun’.

 

“A lot has been written about the introduction of the region-wide security outfit for the Southwest, known as Àmọ̀tẹ́kùn. Much of it is built around emotions. And as my readers may have noticed, I am not a NICE man. I am a WISE man. I deal with facts. I do not deal in emotions.”

 

“Nnamdi Kanu is only partly right. Nigeria is definitely not a zoo. But, I must confess that we live in a jungle, …

Boko Haram: Buhari Reacts To Execution Of CAN Chairman

January 22, 2020 7:18 am
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the Boko Haram killing of Lawan Andimi, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Michika local government area of Adamawa state.

Buhari, in a statement by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, described the murder as cruel, inhuman and deliberately provocative.

He expressed sorrow that the terrorists went on to kill the religious leader while giving signals at the same time of a willingness to set him free by releasing him to third parties.

“President Buhari consoles the Christian community all over Nigeria, the government

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Army Speaks On ‘Killing, Abduction Of Soldiers’ In Borno

January 22, 2020 7:17 am
The Nigerian Army has dismissed the report of killing and abduction of soldiers by Boko Haram terrorists along Gwoza-Bama road in Borno.

The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, in a statement on Tuesday, dismissed claim that 17 soldiers were killed and others kidnapped in a confrontation with the terrorists around Banki Junction, along Gwoza-Bama road.

He said some international organisations had equally fallen prey to the Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province propaganda antics.

“It is pertinent to add that the Army Headquarters has keenly observed that fake news, particularly on security-related issues have become rampant from

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MURIC Speaks On Execution Of CAN Chairman

January 22, 2020 7:17 am

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned the murder of the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Rev. Lawan Andimi, by Boko Haram

MURIC director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Tuesday in a statement, described the killing as horrendous, ungodly and barbaric.

He noted that that Boko Haram is not an Islamic group, but a group of misled zealots, adding that any group that kills at will and sheds the blood of innocent people cannot represent the religion.

Akintola said: “What is the crime of Rev. Andimi? Being a Christian is

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PDP Chairman In Kano Defects To APC

January 22, 2020 7:16 am
The Kano State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rabiu Sulaiman Bichi, has reportedly defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

According to Daily Nigerian, a source close to the party chairman said his decision to dump the party was based on principles and personal conviction.

“The decision of Rabiu Sulaiman Bichi was not related to the outcome of the Supreme Court judgement. It was purely based on principles and personal conviction.

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“In the affairs of Kwankwasiyya, Rabiu Bichi has been lately rendered irrelevant, ostracised and sidelined from

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The Northern Nigeria And The Rest Of Us

January 22, 2020 7:02 am

 

Northern Nigeria may be educationally disadvantaged, but they are not politically disadvantaged. Have you ever wondered why the North has always succeeded in pitching the Igbos, Yorubas and others against themselves while gunning for power?

Isn’t it surprising that the much primitive and less educated North have been outsmarting the more developed and educated South?

Some of the answers can be gotten from this Sardauna’s quote:

“The new Nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent the change of power. We must use the minorities in the north, …

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